Experience with a two-tier reflex gFOBT/FIT strategy in a national bowel screening programme

Journal of Medical Screening

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 8-13

  Fraser, Callum G ^a   Digby, Jayne ^b   McDonald, Paula J ^c   Strachan, Judith A ^c   Carey, Francis A ^d   Steele, Robert J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b Scottish Bowel Screening Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c Scottish Bowel Screening Centre Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GUAIAC;

ADENOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OCCULT BLOOD; PHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADENOMA; AGED; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FECES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; GUAIAC; HUMANS; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; REFLEX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND;

EID: 84860633449     PISSN: 09691413     EISSN: 14755793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jms.2011.011098     Document Type: Article

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